Dec 12, 2019, Solihull Observer: Location of new Solihull special school revealed by council https://solihullobserver.co.uk/news/location-of-new-solihull-special-school-revealed-by-council-16552/ SOLIHULL COUNCIL has revealed the location of a new special school, as it looks to keep special needs provision in the borough. The Bosworth Campus in Smith’s Wood will have places for 100 children and young people with autism aged between seven and 16 years old…. Children’s services officers at the council are worried a predicted rise in the number of Solihull pupils with special needs will stretch demand, as the authority faces a budget crisis. Funding for schooling children with special needs comes from the council’s ‘high needs block’, but sending children to school outside the borough costs double that of education at Solihull schools. The council has said the situation is unaffordable, as its high needs block is stretched by a £3million [$4M US] overspend. It wants to end out-of-the-borough placements. The budget overspend could have reached £5.6 million [$7.5M US] by the end of 2019, council projections show. Now the council is looking for ways to provide more places for children with educational health care plans, which the council issues to families who need special needs provision…. The council also intends to provide more places for autistic children in secondary schools and more primary places in North Solihull. … Solihull has 1,444 pupils with an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP). The council expects a further 52 places across all education levels would cost £1.2million [$1.6M US].
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Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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